Toyota Team Argentina driver Mariano Werner won the Super TC 2000 race at Rosario ahead of Nestor Girolami's Peugeot 408 and Toyota team-mate Matías Rossi and storms into the lead of the championship.Werner took a comforable win in the rain after starting second on the grid, after just losing out to Renault Lo Jack Team driver Mariano Altuna in the Super 8 qualifying race in the morning, with the Renaults struggling in the wet conditions after a strategic error with tyre selection.

The race was interrupted briefly by the safety car on lap 32 to facilitate the recover of Daniel Belli's stricken Lanus Motorsport Chevrolet Cruze.

Werner's winning margin was a dominant 8.4 seconds over Peugeot Cobra Team's Nestor Girolami, with reigning champion Matías Rossi close behind, just two-tenths of a second behind Girolami's 408 at the line.

Jorge Trebbiani scored a strong result for the PGS16 Ford team with fifth, with Emanuele Spataro the top classified Renault Lo Jack Team driver in sixth place, followed by the two Chevrolet Cruzes of Agustín Canapino and Christian Ledesma.

With his second consecutive win in only the third round of the Championship, Werner now assumes the points lead from an absent Carlos 'Cacá' Bueno with 62 over Girolami on 56, with Rossi in third just five points further behind.01 Mariano Werner 43 Laps02 Nestor Girolami +8.38303 Matías Rossi +8.55004 Jorge Trebbiani +9.27305 Emiliano Spataro +10.41206 Agustín Canapino +15.43207 Christian Ledesma +17.32608 Leonel Pernía +18.23909 Gabriel Ponce de León +18.60310 Facundo Ardusso +19.108

Matías Rossi won the Super TC 2000 race at San Juan, claiming the championship lead. Chevrolet driver Christian Ledesma finished second with Rossi's team mate Mariano Werner in third.Ledesma, Werner and Agustín Canapino were involved in a big scrap for second in the race. The fight lasted until seven laps before the finish when Canapino had to retire due to technical problems.

Ledesma and Werner continued the fight until the very end, with Ledesma keeping ahead, but only just with 0.569 seconds separating the both over the finishing line.

Pole position man José María López was an early victim in the race, being forced to retire his PSG16 Team Ford Focus due to technical problems.Peugeot 408 driver Nestor Girolami finished fourth ahead of Jorge Trebbiani and Leonel Pernía. Facundo Ardusso and Matias Munoz Marchesi rounded off the top ten.With four races completed of the 2012 season, Rossi heads the standings on 83 points, Werner is second on 80 points and Girolami is third on 72 points. Super TC 2000 continues at General Roca on June 10.

I know this is offtopic, but I've just wanted to answer my own question: F3 Sudam (at least for 2012) is dead.The old promoter dropped the series and the Argentine teams decide to leave the project behind.

The new Brazilian promoter decided that the costs to arrange a South American series were unjustifiable and has decided to nationalize it, creating the F3 Brasil.Races could start on the second semester if Petrobras still interested in sponsoring the championship.

An ungrateful end to F3 Sudam and a harsh (re)born to F3 Brasil with rumored 11 cars spread on two classes and both running with an outdated chassis.

INDY IS NOT., THAT IT IS NOT!JUST is STC 2000!!HERE YOU CAN SEE THE FAST LAP OF MARIANO WERNER FULL ONBOARD WITH TOYOTA V8, JUST WHEN IMPOSING A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR A CATEGORY FIA TOURING .. 254.877 KM / H AVERAGE TIME, AND THAT WAS A SET-UP CIRCUIT FOR NORMAL AND NOT FOR OVALS, DIRECTOR AND NOT allowed WERNER TRY A THIRD ROUND ..ENJOY THAT SPEED PASSENGER WALL!

In the video, Werner states that a set-up for ovals can be improved much this record!"I was very comfortable," said Werner!

426 Front Wheel Drive Touring Car & Rear Wheel Drive GT GearboxA transverse six speed sequential racing gearbox, primarily designed for use in FWD Touring Car and Rally Car applications, utilising higher torque engines. It is the spec. gearbox for the Argentinean STC2000 series.The unit is a re-package of the successful ‘416’ FWD Touring Car gearbox, which has been utilised in the ETCC and WTCC. The new design gives a lower center of gravity, and the encapsulating cluster casting makes it easier to remove the cluster for ratio changes. Customers using the 426 have secured class wins in races such as the Nürburgring 24 Hours. A recent variant has been made available for RWD GT2 & GT4 applications.

Pro Racing back with Franco Vivian at OberáThe Pro Racing team will return for the next round of the Super TC 2000 Championship at Oberá after a two race absence, with 23-year-old Franco Vivian joining the team in their Fiat Linea.

The team ran the works Fiat programme in TC 2000 last year, but had dropped to just one car at the start of the season after Fiat left the Championship, fielding two-time champion José María López in the Fiat Linea, now equipped with a Radicial V8 engine with the new changes in regulations for this season as the TC 2000 became the Super TC 2000.

After a tough start, López left Pro Racing to join the rival independent PSG16 Team, formerly the factory Ford team in the Championship, from the fourth round at San Juan. López took pole position in his first race with PSG16, and also took pole position again last time out at General Roca and went on to take the race win.

Pro Racing will return at the next round at Oberá with 2010 Formula Renault 2.0 Argentina runner-up Franco Vivian, who is looking forward to racing in the Championship again.

"It's a great joy to debut in Super TC2000," said Vivian. "Since I started in karting, my goal was the TC2000 and now Super TC2000. In 2009 and 2010 I raced in the (Buenos Aires) ran the 200km as the guest of Jose Luis Di Palma and I really enjoyed it.

José María López claimed his fourth consecutive pole position for the Super TC2000 race at Rafaela in spectacular style. The Ford driver was fastest by 0.360 seconds but blew his engine right after passing the finishing line on his last lap, leaving the team with a tough job ahead of the race tomorrow.Emiliano Spataro and Facundo Ardusso managed to the the exact same time down to the thousand of a second, with Spataro setting his time first and will thanks to that start second ahead of Ardusso.

Vivian Franco claimed fourth fastest time ahead of top Toyota driver in the form of Matias Rossi. Ricardo Risatti claimed sixth fastest time ahead of Agustin Canapino, Gillermo Ortelli and Christian Ledesma.

Fourth straight win for López at San MartínJosé María Lopez has taken his fourth consecutive race victory for the PSG16 Team at San Martín and leaps to the lead of the Super TC 2000 drivers' championship.Lopéz worked his way forward in a strategy intense race, with the introduction of tyre stops with soft and hard option tyres from Pirelli at the eighth round of the season.

Ricardo Risatti won his first race with Honda at Río Cuarto, ending an eight-race winning streak for Toyota Team Argentina and the PSG16 Ford team, finishing ahead of the three Renaults of Emiliano Spataro, Leonel Pernía and Guillermo Ortelli.

Mariano Werner was fastest in qualifying for Toyota Team Argentina, but after the championship position based grid penalties, that gave 25-year-old Risatti pole position in the Honda Civic, with Leonel Pernía starting alongside in the Renault Lo Jack Fluence.

Toyota Team Argenina's Matías Rossi was the top placed of the championship front runners in fifth, but only picks up one more point than championship leader José María López who finished in sixth place in the PSG16 Ford Focus.

Néstor Girolami finished in seventh place in the Peugeot Cobra Team 408, with Christian Ledesma the top finishing Chevrolet driver in eighth having started down in 13th on the grid in the Cruze.

José María López still leads the championship on 154 points, 29 points clear of Matías Rossi and Néstor Girolami, who are now both tied in second place, with Mariano Werner five points behind them.

INDY IS NOT., THAT IT IS NOT!JUST is STC 2000!!HERE YOU CAN SEE THE FAST LAP OF MARIANO WERNER FULL ONBOARD WITH TOYOTA V8, JUST WHEN IMPOSING A NEW WORLD RECORD FOR A CATEGORY FIA TOURING .. 254.877 KM / H AVERAGE TIME, AND THAT WAS A SET-UP CIRCUIT FOR NORMAL AND NOT FOR OVALS, DIRECTOR AND NOT allowed WERNER TRY A THIRD ROUND ..ENJOY THAT SPEED PASSENGER WALL!

In the video, Werner states that a set-up for ovals can be improved much this record!"I was very comfortable," said Werner!

Kind regards..

Video is now deleted.Like many of the posts questioning the validity of your claims of a record......

Toyota Team Argentina's Matías Rossi and Peugeot Cobra Team's Néstor Girolami have both scored wins at the latest round of the Super TC 2000 Championship at Santa Fe. Girolami took victory in Saturday's night race, whilst reigning champion Rossi won in daylight on Sunday.Girolami led the way under cover of the night on Saturday in his Peugeot 408 to put his championship challenge back on track. With title rival and current points leader José María López finishing fifth in the PSG16 Ford Focus, Girolami was able to close up by eight points in the standings to López, and was just 11 points behind at the conclusion of the first race.

Emiliano Spataro finished second in the Renault Lo Jack Team Fluence, just over two-seconds behind with Matías Rossi completing the podium for Toyota Team Argentina (TTA).Christian Ledesma took a strong fourth for Chevrolet in the Cruze, with López picking up eight points in fifth, still within 10 seconds of Girolami at the line.

For race two, Rossi started from pole position in the Toyota Corolla, with the Chevrolet of Agustín Canapino alongside, whilst José María López started all the way down in 23rd.

Rossi held on to score his third win of the season, his first since San Juan in May, crossing the line less than a second ahead of Renault's Emiliano Spataro. Saturday's race winner Girolami took the final spot on the podium, leading a trio of Peugeots with Damian Fineschi in fourth and Facundo Ardusso fifth.José María López recovered to finish 15th, but saw his championship lead decimated. With two races remaining, López now leads on 162.5 points, just 1.5 points ahead of Girolami and 2.5 points ahead of reigning champion Matías Rossi.The next round of the Super TC 2000 Championship is at Salta in three weeks time on November 4th.

Amazing news!Surely this confirms Argentinian space frame cars from the year 2000 is the best racing series in argentina but still not relevant anywhere else!

As I think,, you don't Know NOTHING.. the TC 2000 cars Have NOT space frame chassis., they are same estructure from original car, like the WTCC.,But Your opinion does not interest me three cucumbers .. you there, with your sad poison.,And this "from the year 2000"... wow... operación de cataratas para tí..

Introducing the new Honda Team for the STC 2000 ChampionshipTODAY in Buenos Aires - Introducing new Honda New Civic V8 - 433 Bhp at 11200 Rpm!

Does it have to be relevant anywhere else? Racing is racing and I think the OP does a great job in keeping us informed about other series.

Don't you think its essentially someone doing PR for the series?Yes I know he's keeping everyone informed and its great to find out whats going on in the wider world of motorsport but some of the posts are a bit silly - Touring car record top speed set at oval outside of racing conditions, Tom Cruise, pictures of Barrichello crying, event flyers, quoting crowd figures etc.....

Don't you think its essentially someone doing PR for the series?Yes I know he's keeping everyone informed and its great to find out whats going on in the wider world of motorsport but some of the posts are a bit silly - Touring car record top speed set at oval outside of racing conditions, Tom Cruise, pictures of Barrichello crying, event flyers, quoting crowd figures etc.....

Don't you think its essentially someone doing PR for the series?Yes I know he's keeping everyone informed and its great to find out whats going on in the wider world of motorsport but some of the posts are a bit silly - Touring car record top speed set at oval outside of racing conditions, Tom Cruise, pictures of Barrichello crying, event flyers, quoting crowd figures etc.....

Considering the topic has been running for about five years and the OP is not spamming the board it would be churlish to close it down.There are 'silly' posts everywhere and, providing they align with the board rules, there is no reason to remove them.